Music is a good major. You get exercise in creativity, abstract thinking, and problem-solving. Music requires discipline and practice, the latter in particula

Music is a good major. You get exercise in creativity, abstract thinking, and problem-solving. Music requires discipline and practice, the latter in particular being something that programmers and IT people sometimes forget about. The actual act of performing and its associated pressures are generally not encountered in Csci and Math. But music is definitely NOT a replacement for either. After discrete math, linear algebra, and algorithms, advanced music theory felt like elementary arithmetic. I've never taken any music theory class that was as mentally demanding as compiler design (although with music there is a lot of room to seek greater challenges on your own). I don't know about business or marketing. But if you do go music I would definitely try and cherry-pick some good classes from those other majors.